Dear Comrade Rovio!

I am taking this opportunity to find out whether you received my letter with the enclosed letter to Smilge?** and whether you transmitted the letter to him?

The courier is traveling back in about two days. Please be so kind as to transmit this letter to Smilge so that he too knows that I am concerned about his receipt of the letter and am awaiting his reply.

Greetings! Your K. Ivanov

Will you not send me a complete set of (1) *Priboi* for issue 507 and (2) *Sotsialista-Revolyutsionera* for the last 1½ weeks?

P.S. Have you sent the letter and newspapers to Sweden through friends?

(October 10) 1917

* Apparently this refers to V. I. Lenin's letter "To the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee" in Stockholm (see the present volume, pp. 445-451). — Ed.

** "Letter to the Chairman of the Regional Committee of the Army, Navy and Workers of Finland I. T. Smilge" (*Collected Works*, 5th ed., vol. 34, pp. 264-268). — Ed.

Written after September 27

Sent from Vyborg to Helsinki

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript